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Supermassive black holes (BHs) appear to be ubiquitous at the center of all galaxies which have been observed at high enough sensitivities and resolution with the Hubble Space Telescope. Their masses are found to be tightly linked with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Francesco Shankar

The masses of supermassive black holes (SMBHs, M_BH=10^6-10^11 Msun) in the centres of galaxies are related to the host stellar spheroid mass and velocity dispersion. A key question is how these relations originate, and over which range of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Nora Lützgendorf

We construct a model for the formation of black holes within galactic bulges. The initial state is a slowly rotating isothermal sphere, characterized by effective transport speed $\aeff$ and rotation rate $\Omega$. The black hole mass is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Fred C. Adams , David S. Graff , Douglas O. Richstone

Although supermassive black holes (SMBHs) correlate well with their host galaxies, there is an emerging view that outliers exist. Henize 2-10, NGC 4889, and NGC1277 are examples of SMBHs at least an order of magnitude more massive than…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Fazeel Khan , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Peter Berczik

In this paper, we examine if the properties of central black holes in galactic nuclei correlate with their host dark matter halo. We analyze the entire sample of galaxies where black hole mass, velocity dispersion, sigma, and asymptotic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Marta Volonteri , Priyamvada Natarajan , Kayhan Gultekin

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) have been found to be ubiquitous in the nuclei of early-type galaxies and of bulges of spirals. There are evidences of a tight correlation between the SMBH masses, the velocity dispersions of stars in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-23 Gianfranco De Zotti

The masses of supermassive black holes are known to correlate with the properties of the bulge components of their host galaxies. In contrast, they appear not to correlate with galaxy disks. Disk-grown pseudobulges are intermediate in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 John Kormendy , R. Bender , M. E. Cornell

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can grow through both accretion and mergers. It is still unclear how SMBHs evolve under these two channels from high redshifts to the SMBH population we observe in the local universe. Observations can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-09-26 Fan Zou , W. N. Brandt , Elena Gallo , Bin Luo , Qingling Ni , Yongquan Xue , Zhibo Yu

The statistical relations between the masses of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in disk galaxies and the kinematic properties of their host galaxies are analyzed. We use the radial velocity profiles for several galaxies obtained earlier at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-15 A. V. Zasov , A. M. Cherepashchuk , I. Yu. Katkov

Understanding how Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) evolve through cosmic time allows us to probe the physical processes that control their evolution. We use an updated model for the evolution of masses and spins of supermassive black holes…

Understanding the processes that drive galaxy formation and shape the observed properties of galaxies is one of the most interesting and challenging frontier problems of modern astrophysics. We now know that the evolution of galaxies is…

The cosmological evolution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) seems to be intimately linked to their host galaxies. Active galactic nuclei (AGN) can be probed by deep X-ray surveys. We review results from large X-ray selected samples…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-08-08 Andreas Mueller , Guenther Hasinger

The tight correlations between the masses of supermassive black holes (BHs) and the properties of their host galaxies suggest that BHs coevolve with galaxies. However, what is the link between BH mass ($M_{\rm BH}$) and the properties of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-08-21 Ming-Yang Zhuang , Luis C. Ho

Accretion of matter onto central Black Holes (BHs) in galaxies liberates enormous amounts of feedback energy, which influence the formation and evolution of structures, affecting the environment from pc to Mpc scales. These BHs are usually…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-15 Paramita Barai , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

We study the interplay between galaxy evolution and central black-hole (BH) growth using the {NewHorizon} cosmological simulation. BH growth is slow when the dark-matter halo is below a golden mass of $M_{\rm v} \sim 10^{12} \rm M_\odot$,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-02 Sharon Lapiner , Avishai Dekel , Yohan Dubois

The population of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) is composed by quiescent SMBHs, such as those seen in local galaxies including the Milky Way's, and active ones, resulting in quasars and active galactic nuclei (AGN). Outside our…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-05 Marco Tucci , Marta Volonteri

The observed relation between supermassive black hole (SMBH) mass (M) and bulge stellar velocity dispersion (Sigma) is described by log(M) = alpha + beta*log(Sigma/200 km/s). As this relation has important implications for models of galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 D. Batcheldor

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are tiny in comparison to the galaxies they inhabit, yet they manage to influence and coevolve along with their hosts. Evidence of this mutual development is observed in the structure and dynamics of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-12 Benjamin L. Davis , Zehao Jin

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) with dynamically measured masses have shown empirical correlations with host galaxy properties. These correlations are often the only method available to estimate SMBH masses and gather statistics for large…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-11 Maggie C. Huber , Joseph Simon , Julia M. Comerford

We investigate the connection between supermassive black holes (SMBHs) and their host dark matter halos in the local universe using the clustering statistics and luminosity function of AGN from the Swift/BAT AGN Spectroscopic survey (BASS…

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